MPAA: ACTA must include Internet provisions

MPAA Chair Dan Glickman appeared before a Congressional committee last week and left little doubt that ACTA is all about the Internet and copyright provisions. According to Glickman:

We firmly believe that for the ACTA to address the enforcement challenges our industry confronts today, it MUST include robust protections for intellectual property online. Practical secondary liability regimes for online infringement are essential to motivate stakeholders to cooperate in implementing the reasonable practices that promote legitimate consumer options and make the online marketplace less hospitable for infringers. ACTA parties should refine their secondary liability regimes to reflect current realities and adopt modern, flexible systems where they do not exist.

Talk of "refining secondary liability regimes" is not so subtle code for the establishment of a global three-strikes and you're out policy.

Michael Geist is a law professor and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa.